Who Is Your Audience?
We are deep in teaching and learning centre conference season and my post this week is about those particular types of conferences and how they are each very different from each other, but some are also morphing at the moment to become another third type thing in the new higher ed environment that we are in that is not really great for anyone. When I was at the colleges often the teaching and learning conferences were 2-day (sometimes 3 day) things that were closed to only employees of that college. It was an opportunity for faculty and staff to showcase what they are doing in their classroom spaces and how that could be applicable to other faculty and other disciplines. There were very few of these college teaching and learning conferences that were open to colleagues at other colleges. But this has also changed a fair bit over the years and now some college conferences are less in-house professional development than an opportunity to frame who they are in relation to other colle...